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HEAD OF GOVERNMENT OF BARBADOS MIA MOTTLEY The Prime Minister
Mia Mottley told her grade-school teacher that, one day, she would be the leader of her home nation of Barbados. Last month, Mottley became the first female Prime Minister of Barbados after her party swept the island’s general elections in a historic 30-0 win. Female leadership has been trending for some time in the Caribbean. Mottley joins the ranks of five female heads of state and another two female heads of government.
No stranger to Barbados’ political landscape, Mottley has the confidence and hope of an entire nation on her shoulders as she seeks to pull the island out of economic morass. Mottley is the granddaughter of Ernest Deighton Mottley, a real estate broker and the first Mayor of Bridgetown. Her father, Elliott Deighton Mottley, was also a barrister who sat in the House of Assembly. He served as consul-general in New York and as Bermuda’s attorney-general. He also sat on Belize’s Court of Appeal.
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